Maffei Demands British Accept Iroquois Lacrosse Team at Tournament

[mylesmcc12]

Well said Dan but please next time we dont exactly mind but prefer native american rather then Indigenous.

[RATHAHONNI]

Shame on you England for ostracizing the Iroquoise National Team who have consistently placed ahead of you,if you should win a medal it's bogus,u did'nt play the best.And shame on all the players who did'nt stand in solidarity with the inventors of the game.

[BulletProofLacrosse]

Lacrosse #FTW .

[obebogie]

What is wrong with you people?

They don't have proper, internationally recognized passports. Therefore, they can't travel until they get either an American or Canadian passport. It's that simple.

There's nothing noble about missing a game because they want to use their own homemade documents, its just stubborn stupidity.

[shoefreak1178]

@obebogie Actually your stupidity is showing. If you knew anything about the Six Nations Confederation you would know they have their own internationally recognized passports and having been using them for the past 30 years. Do some research before you make such ignorant comments.

[obebogie]

@shoefreak1178 "Actually your stupidity is showing." - how? They do NOT have internationally recognised passports, thats the whole problem! They used to be recognised but things have changed and now they are officially NOT recognised. Whats to research?

[shoefreak1178]

@obebogie Members of the nation have traveled internationally within the past few weeks/months using their passports. They have traveled to a variety of countries. Changes to US national security were made last year and none have been made since. Their passports ARE internationally recognized and have been accepted recently. You are ignorant to this subject ~ move on.

[obebogie]

@shoefreak1178 You can call me ignorant and stupid all you want - The passports aren't even valid at U.S borders and were given a one-time waiver by Hillary Clinton to LEAVE the states, so there's no way any other members have been traveling around freely using those passports in the last few weeks/months. Sorry, that's just total nonsense. And they're NOT internationally recognized, if they were then there wouldn't be an issue would there?

[shoefreak1178]

@obebogie ***facepalm*** This is just way over your head. Clinton did not "waiver" them to leave. She assured the UK gov they would be allowed back in. Big difference. My stb husband is a member of the Iroquois Nation and yes members have traveled recently. You shhhhhhh now. Believe me, you don't understand.

[obebogie]

@shoefreak1178 You're wrong. The State Department wouldn't allow them to leave OR return using their own passports and it was this that Clinton intervened with. It was only after this that the U.K said they wouldn't be allowed in because their passports are not recognized.

[mylesmcc12]

@obebogie Ok so now that the Passports are recognized by citizens of US AND CANADA N SHIT LOAD of other places why are they still not recognized? Oh hey iroquois ppl we understand that your nationality leaders (chiefs and clan mothers) issued their very own and unique passports but we still dont recognize you all just because we didnt make them for you. get it? they want us to carry legit booklets so whats the difference between ours and yours?We can SUPER glue a microchip to it if youswant .ha

[travisismyusername]

Iroquois or Irondequoit? ;-)

[moewrrrichard]

England......really????????? RU kidding me? Disgraceful ! The Haudenosaunee people, luckily, will prevail and live to play another day. The sun keeps shining brightly on these proud and honorable people who gave us all this wonderful game...the creators game. I'm officially boycotting the 2010 Lacrosse World Games

[henrikhankhagnell]

well, the british goverment are also a bunch of racists...

[acerb45666555]

its a brave thing you do. well done!

[Iddybud]

Thanks, Rep. Maffei. This means so much to the people of Central New York!